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		<title>Broadcast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: It&#8217;s been almost a year since I&#8217;ve published here. Almost a year since my father passed away unexpectedly. It seemed better to be quiet, to process personally. And if you know me, that&#8217;s not how I work &#8212; so it&#8217;s been a very different season. Now I feel once again ready to publish. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Are Becoming Who We Are</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“What do you want to be when you grow up?” It’s the go-to adult question for children  &#8211; especially adults who aren’t very comfortable with children. Or are meeting a child for the first time. Implied in that simple, innocuous interrogative is the skeletal structure of a system of values. It assumes first that you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2011/01/we-are-becoming-who-we-are/</link>
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		<title>Of Magic and Miracles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To put this all in context, we&#8217;ve just come through the Christmas and New Year celebration seasons. Having four girls under the age of five makes Christmas a fun and magical time. I&#8217;m a bit of a late bloomer in the realm of parenting, so this is my first set of urchins to awaken to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2011/01/of-magic-and-miracles/</link>
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		<title>We told him to stop, because he was not one of us.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m probably going to regret posting this. I have wrestled with it, but in the end, it was in my heart struggling to get out, and that is what this blog is for. In case you&#8217;re wondering, I think I could argue with myself about a few of the things I am about to write, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2010/08/we-told-him-to-stop-because-he-was-not-one-of-us/</link>
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		<title>Your Mind is the Scene of the Crime.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not given to reviewing movies here on ViralJesus.org, but I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about a film I saw over the weekend &#8211; Inception. I was putting together a post on this very subject, and the movie had an oddly crystallizing effect. I was gripped by the tag line used in promotional materials: Your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2010/07/your-mind-is-the-scene-of-the-crime/</link>
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		<title>And Now a Word From Our Sponsors&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note to anyone who happens along &#8211; I have been invited to contribute this week&#8217;s blog post at Redwoodhills.com &#8211; feel free to check it out here: http://www.redwoodhills.com/blog/65-jon-arnold/116-q10-easy-steps-to-a-raising-perfect-kidsq-and-other-urban-legends I have another post for viraljesus almost fully cooked, but thought I would leave it another week while this one percolates&#8230;I will also be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2010/07/and-now-a-word-from-our-sponsors/</link>
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		<title>Father to Daughter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay &#8211; one more post about Dad angst before I go back to broader topics&#8230; One week from tomorrow, God willing, we will welcome a fourth girl &#8211; Ella Rae &#8211; into our family. I was thinking tonight about the years we ached for just one child and the task we have now undertaken &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2010/05/father-to-daughter/</link>
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		<title>I Deserve This.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[13 years ago next month I graduated college and began &#8220;full time vocational ministry&#8221; work. Of my contemporaries who did the same, a good chunk of have abandoned that pursuit, some because they fell morally or ethically, even more because they just didn&#8217;t see the point anymore. I can think of an even larger number [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2010/04/i-deserve-this/</link>
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		<title>Hard.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not a lot of time, but feeling the need to post. I have been working up the outline of a book I&#8217;d like to write (much like this blog, it will likely never reach any audience, but it&#8217;s something I always wanted to try). It&#8217;s called &#8220;Letters to Neo.&#8221; The basic idea is to frame [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2010/02/hard/</link>
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		<title>A Consistent Ethic of Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I prepare to share the story of how our family came to be this Sunday at Redwood Hills, I am thinking about one of the main questions we get asked a lot: are fertility treatments consistent with Christian ethics (or more like &#8220;are Christians allowed to do that kind of thing?&#8221;)? It&#8217;s a great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2010/01/a-consistent-ethic-of-life/</link>
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		<title>Legalism. When &#8220;Right&#8221; is Just Not Enough.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christmas &#8211; the season of Bible movies on TV &#8211; like the one in the picture. Maybe because of that I have been captivated lately by Jesus&#8217; take on the Law given to Moses. It is fascinating because He himself says that he has not come to destroy the law, but fulfill it. Many take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2009/12/legalism-when-right-is-just-not-enough/</link>
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		<title>Sarah Laughed. I Get That.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I told you before in this post, our family walked through ten years of barrenness before we finally had our first children. We have three now, all conceived with the help of doctors. We needed doctor help because of some specific medical conditions that made it next to impossible for us to conceive. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2009/12/sarah-laughed-i-get-that/</link>
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		<title>We preach&#8230;marketing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This may sound like a rant, or a reaction to something I saw recently. I want to assure you that it isn&#8217;t. You don&#8217;t have to believe me (I can&#8217;t prove it), but I&#8217;ve been on this journey of understanding for over ten years now, and I am just now to the point where I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2009/11/we-preach-marketing/</link>
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		<title>Evil.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know why I turned on the tv in the morning 8 years ago today, September 11, 2001. I was up for an early staff breakfast, and watching the news wasn&#8217;t part of my morning routine. But I distinctly remember feeling the need to turn it on. It took me a few minutes to understand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2009/09/evil/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Kind of (not) a Big Deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At last we come to the end: Act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly. Now for the &#8220;walk humbly&#8221; part. It would be hard to argue the fact that Will Ferrell&#8217;s supreme gift is his ability to create  characters that are big, loud, dumb - yet somehow lovable - horse&#8217;s rear ends. In so doing, he exposes the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2009/07/im-kind-of-not-a-big-deal/</link>
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		<title>The Wonder and Weight of Being Born American</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here on July 4th I thought I would take the few quiet moments I have before heading out to blow stuff up (in celebration of the freedom to blow stuff up, of course), to do what every other blogger is doing &#8211; comment on America.  I was born in Turkey, but only because my father [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2009/07/the-wonder-and-weight-of-being-born-american/</link>
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		<title>It didn&#8217;t look like it was headed that way&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Father&#8217;s Day, y&#8217;all. I write this at the end of the day &#8211; the kids are in bed (sleep comes much later than &#8220;in bed&#8221;, but eventually&#8230;I hope). A great day of getting gifts, eating food, and some &#8220;time off&#8221; to take in a movie, then a webcam call with my father (he&#8217;s such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2009/06/it-didnt-look-like-it-was-headed-that-way/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m down with mercy&#8230;as long as a few people get what they&#8217;ve got comin&#8217;&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re trying to figure out the &#8220;how&#8221; of. Now about loving mercy &#8211; I do. Just as long as the right people get &#8220;mercified&#8221; (spell-check says that isn&#8217;t a word. I say &#8220;it is if I can get enough people to use it.&#8221; Stupid spell-check.). In the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2009/06/im-down-with-mercyas-long-as-a-few-people-get-what-theyve-got-comin/</link>
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		<title>Justice begins at home.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing on my public processing of vexing questions, let&#8217;s pick up here &#8211; I promised to post &#8220;the things I am mostly almost pretty sure are true about justice. Maybe.&#8221; And so I shall. At least I shall try. Global justice is a big chalupa. Economic, social, political, and religious inequities abound. I am increasingly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2009/06/justice-begins-at-home/</link>
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		<title>Justice vs. fairness, why I can&#8217;t get on American Idol, and other existential rants.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing a thread about what I think we oughta be thinking about (See this post for the intro to this section). This is a direct follow-up to the last post (aren&#8217;t they all?). I seem to have painted myself into a bit of a corner on this one. The first item in this list is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viraljesus.org/2009/05/justice-vs-fairness-why-i-cant-get-on-american-idol-and-other-existential-rants/</link>
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